Everyone who ever lived has lived in the most modern of times. Dominant cultures come and go and humanity ratchets its way to the future as civilization morphs in place to this-now-that configuration.
Zen benefits from modernity by virtue of the increasing efficacy of language. The maturation of secular thought has richened the ability of modern English to express in objective terms concepts that a mere hundred years ago would have to be relegated to mysticism.
Zen benefits from the richness of modern language, but the essence of Zen is the unchanging ultimate realization of the core of life its self. Like a faceted diamond that is immune to the collapse of civilizations or to the rise and fall of ideologies Zen abides. Recognized or unrecognized, anywhere in the Universe, Zen is unchanging and unchangeable.
So what's in a word? What's in a word is a key that opens the door behind which the mystery of our own existence is revealed.
Zen.
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